Inspiring People,Enlightenment,and Realistic Criticism View with Chinese Characteristics: Liang Qichao's Art Criticism Thought and Practice

In this paper,we expound Liang Qichao's art criticism thought and practice based upon his social ideal and aesthetic thought. As a revolutionist,Liang Qichao pays attention to literature,art,and academic. He advocates reform in poetry,novel,and drama,and hopes to reform nationality and arouse the mass through art especially realistic art,so as to actualize the social value and its educating function of art. Liang Qichao' discourse on new people and inspiring people could be said to have inherited the Confucian tradition and have opened the trend of functional discourse of literary politics and socialist realistic art criticism in 20 th century.